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Uneven Matching

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Clement Valla: Postcards from Google Earth. Wonder if Clement and Jenny know each other.

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GUGGENHEIM GEMS

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Imprint’s August Heffner reports the exciting news that the Guggenheim has digitized a host of out-of-print catalogues. This is wonderful news: not only are these publications valuable scholarly resources, but together they form an inspirational treasure trove (no surprise, considering so many were designed by Herbert Matter). Look at that Klimt \<>/ Schiele cover!

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THE KLING KLANG MACHINES ARE BACK

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Since their performance at the Venice Beinnale in 2005, Kraftwerk’s multimedia shows were also seen as a kind of artistic performance.
Within the context of a multi-channel 3D video installation specially developed for the Kunstbau, Kraftwerk will be holding three concerts in the Munich Alten Kongresshalle – which are of course sold out..! To crown it [...]

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APPLEFUL

Thursday, October 6, 2011

As the Internet abounds with obituaries on Apple mastermind Steve Jobs, The New York Times gathered an excellent overview of all patents to Jobs’ name, profiling just how influential Apple really was in the past 20 years.

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APPLELESS

Thursday, October 6, 2011
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MOBILE EVOLUTION

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

I love watching films from the 80’s and seeing the brick-size of the mobile phones. With his clever paper designs Brighton based designer, Kyle Bean has depicted the increasing miniaturisation of the mobile phone in the style of a Russian Doll set (pictured above).  And on another tangent, it kind of reminds me a little [...]

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JOHN’S PHONE

Sunday, September 18, 2011

I met up with my friend H. last night, who is the only person I know that doesn’t own a mobile phone. However, now he has found an option that he is seriously considering – I’m not quite sure how serious he is about the whole thing.
But he liked the idea that John’s Phone can’t [...]

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STYLELECTRICAL

Friday, September 2, 2011

In times where everyone is wondering what will happen with Apple after mastermind Steve Jobs has announced his resignation from daily operations, the new exhibition at the Museum for Trade and Craft in Hamburg couldn’t have come at a more timely moment: dedicated as it is to the influential design of Apple. In fact the [...]

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FERROFLUID TOWERS

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Japanese artist Sachiko Kodama creates sculptures made from magnetic liquid. By exposing ferrofluid to magnetism these alien looking creatures shape and re-shape. Her work Morpho Tower is currently shown at the Edinburgh Art Festival until September 4th, 2011.

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AI WEIWEI IN NEW YORK

Friday, July 29, 2011

Oh, the speed of the internet. A condition of Ai Weiwei’s recent release from Chinese custody was his silence on Twitter and the blogs, but the Chinese government said nothing about this new Google+ (at least for now). Seemingly in conjunction with a wonderful new show just opened at the Asia Society Museum  in New [...]

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